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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 2h

Hadn’t scrolled down far enough and couldn’t figure out what the issue was. Figured I was an idiot and gave up, only to get hit with a jump scare

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 4h

really good articulation. I’ve been spending time recently playing the Sims with a bunch of mods in order to experiment with surfacing these machine-reasons: I don’t want the weird little guys’ behavior to be more understandable, but I want to make it more *observable*, & that’s been very satisfying

Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 6h

a central principle—maybe THE central principle—in each of these is: sometimes you won't understand what the weird little guys do, and they'll do it for a machine-reason that you can only feel the edges of. but you will enjoy it when they do it

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 3h

You really weren’t joking about Fleetwood Mac

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 3h

Bob Uecker would have called the hell out of this

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 3h

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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Jayson Stark @jaysonst.bsky.social · 3h

In answer to your questions ...

No, I've never seen that before.
No, it didn't happen because I will Strange But True madness to happen.
Yes, we just saw a "grounded into double play" on a ball that looked like a possible slam over the CF wall.
And the catcher recorded both forceouts.

Baseball!

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 3h

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 3h

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 3h

Inscrutable drama! At the laundromat

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 13h

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 12h

Pretty sure I just someone use “kkkeira kkknightly” without a trace of irony. Stay safe out there.

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 13h

Apologies, I meant to say they clearly hate women entrepreneurs who know how to cover and sell news

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 13h

Man the copyeditors fucking hate her, huh

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 14h

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 14h

Looks like Guizhou to me

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 15h

Really is a shame what these people have done to the Atlantic

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 1d

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 16h

The least philosophical, least kingly man you've ever seen: "We need to bring back rule by philosopher kings"

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 1d

Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

the more things change, the more they stay the same in college football (coaches being showered in cash for not working)

Firings so far this season by Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Penn State, UAB, UCLA and Virginia Tech have those schools committed to buyouts totaling $93.9 million, subject to mitigation and offset, but not including amounts that also will be owed to assistant coaches

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 14d

if you made cop shows 20% more Woke that would be the single most successful use of art to achieve a political end in human history

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 14d

Katie Miller demanded to know why NBC ran an episode of 'Law & Order: SVU' that portrays ICE agents “allowing rape.”

Stephen Miller’s Wife Melts Down Over Portrayal of ICE in ‘Law & Order: SVU’

Katie Miller demanded to know why NBC ran an episode of the hit show that portrays ICE agents “allowing rape.”

trib.al

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 17h

You literally couldn’t make Miami Vice today, because of anti-woke

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Nov 8

Wow! Balloons just fell from the ceiling and a man in a suit just came in to present me with a plaque for listening to Songs: Ohia's "Farewell Transmission" for the most times that anyone ever has in a 24-hour period. It's a fantastic honor and as it happens I do have some remarks prepared,

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 21h

I mean sure, but you’re also literally describing antisemitism

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 23h

Brendan: When Thiel lectured theologians at Innsbruck their conclusion was: “Nicht genügend” (roughly not even sufficient to be submitted for academic consideration). To use one of my favourite academic putdowns, I’d translate that as: “You’re not even wrong.”

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 22h

it isn't even profitable. LLMs, sure. they do a bunch of useful things. video models are just rolling coal to piss in the world's information environment.

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 22h

Theres been a complete collapse of the red lines around antisemitism on both the left and right and I have no idea how to get them back

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 23h

No matter how many warnings given, no matter the shouted battlefield commands, or the trail of bodies, or whether Red Hare can leap over moats & rivers in a single bound...

Some people are always going think it's a good idea to pursue Lü Bu.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

i am hoping the blue jays come back and win this in the bottom of the 9th, for the record and in case these posts ever come up in potential asylum or citizenship related hearings

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 1d

prose style that anyone who has ever graded undergraduate papers can immediately identify as "roommate's Adderall, 3 AM"

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 1d

they should have to buy a stamp

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